Global Refugee Crisis: A Reference HandbookThe history of protecting refugees -- The post-war human rights revolution -- The 1951 refugee convention -- Alienage -- "Well-founded fear" -- Persecution -- The nexus requirement -- Exclusions -- Cessations -- Refugee rights -- Nonrefoulement -- Rights owed to refugees physically present in the receiving state -- Rights owed to refugees lawfully in the contracting state -- Rights owed to refugees lawfully staying in the contracting state -- Rights owed to refugees residing in the contracting state -- Interface with international and regional human rights instruments -- Nonrefoulement -- Racism -- Detention -- Economic, social, and cultural rights -- Rights of the child -- Domestic procedures -- Establishing eligibility -- Denial of asylum hearings and accelerated procedures -- Returned refugees -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Asylum abuse? -- United Kingdom -- The Netherlands -- Sweden -- United States -- Summary -- Nonrefoulement: when (and where) does the prohibition apply? -- Sale v. Haitian centers council, 509 U.S. 155 (1993) -- Justice Blackmun's dissent -- The practices of other states -- Re-conceptualizing human rights and refugee protection -- The responsibility to protect (R2P) -- Extraterritorial obligations (ETO) consortium -- Implications for refugee protection -- Special U.S. issues -- A historical survey of U.S. alien admission practices -- The cold war, U.S. foreign policy, and refugee protection -- Current refugee/asylum law and practice in the United States -- Overseas refugee program -- Criticisms of ORP -- Asylum -- 1996 changes to U.S. asylum law -- Asylum and withholding of deportation -- Disqualifications -- Detention -- Temporary protection -- Biographical sketches -- Mahnaz Afkhami -- Sonya Aho -- Madeleine Albright -- Isabel Allende -- Hannah Arendt -- Christine Arnothy -- Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam (a.k.a. M.I.A.) -- Bertolt Brecht -- Nadia Comaneci -- Zohra Dauod -- Leandro Despouy -- Emmanuel Dongala -- Ariel Dorfman -- Jaroslav Drobny -- Albert Einstein -- Nawal El Saadawi -- Philip Emeagwali -- Enrico Fermi -- Tenzin Gyatso -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- Jóse Ramos Horta -- Michaëlle Jean -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Fazil Kawani -- Mebrahtom Keflezighi -- Akbar Khurasani -- Walter Lam -- Raphael Lemkin -- Miriam Makeba -- Tatyana Mamonova -- Predrag Matvejevic -- Thabo Mbeki -- Golda Meir -- Makau Mutua -- Martina Navratilova -- Le Thanh Nhon -- Rudolf Nureyev -- Edward Said -- Nolvia Dominguez Skjetne -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- George Soros -- Loung Ung -- Alek Wek -- Gao Xingjian -- International and regional treaties -- Conventions relating to the status of refugees -- Protocol relating to the status of refugees -- Organization of African unity, convention governing the specific aspects of refugee problems in Africa -- Cartagena declaration on refugees -- Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment -- Data on asylum applicants for selected western states 2008, 1998, and 1988 |
